Autumn’s Lessons

“A human life has seasons, much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power.  And gift.  By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation.  Life is neither linear nor is [...]

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A Favorite Author

“As October ends, the air begins to smell of windfalls that have been frosted.  The leaves drift down, and most of the branches are bare.  We see more sky.  Night shuts down early.  I miss the long summer twilight’s, when day seems to linger indefinitely.  But the mornings have a sparkle, and I love to [...]

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Good Read: March

I could hardly bear to turn the last page of the book March by Geraldine Brooks.  I have been a lifelong fan of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women series, with the movie and the sound track also high on my list of favorites.  While reading  another novel by Brooks, I noticed she had written this [...]

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A Good Read: Three Cups of Tea

“I don’t do what I’m doing to fight terror, I do it because I care about kids.  Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities.  But working over there, I’ve learned a few things.  I’ve learned that terror doesn’t happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply [...]

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A Good Read: The Shack

Yesterday I was just in the mood for a good book.  I stopped by our public library and they had a whole stack of the novel The Shack by William P. Young out on display.  At first I wasn’t sure if I could bear to read it, although I had heard it was good.  It [...]

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